graftage

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The process of making a graft in horticulture.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The process and the operation of grafting, or the state or condition of being grafted: acomprehensive term comprising the act of grafting and all the questions of science, practice, and description that grow out of the operation.

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Examples

This tree bore such fine thin-shelled easy-to-crack nuts and lent itself so readily to being propagated by graftage and had so many other good characteristics that we have selected it as representative of the black walnut varieties for the north and have named it the Weschcke walnut and patented the variety.

The methods of graftage of the commercial apple-tree are two -- by cion-grafting whereby a bit of wood with two or three buds is inserted on the stock, by bud-grafting (budding) whereby a single bud with a bit of bark attached is inserted under the bark of the stock.